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I wish for a user to have root privileges, but editing the /etc/sudoers file to allow no password still requires me to use the sudo command before a program I wish to run with elevated privileges .

I do I effectively make a normal user root without being root so I have a structured home folder?

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Why not have the user SU to root instead of using sudo? – SpacemanSpiff Dec 27 '10 at 3:22
@Tom, will not all files I save be written under root (root's ownership) then and not the current user? – Robert Renu. Dec 27 '10 at 3:26
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The real answer here is don't do that. – mattdm Dec 27 '10 at 5:45
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In general, this is a bad idea, however if you really require this, then modify the following in /etc/sudoers:

## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root    ALL=(ALL)       ALL
<username>    ALL=(ALL)       ALL

## Same thing without a password
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL
<username>      ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

Or you can just use vipw and set the uid to be 0 for that username.

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If you do:

sudo su -

you will run 'su' with root permissions (elevated via sudo) and the trailing - means that you will use root's environmental variables, not your own.

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